Article |
Source |
Date |
Summary |
Aboriginal mariners near end of historic voyage |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 June 2003 |
A ship crewed by Aboriginal mariners and one European trainer will sail through the heads of Sydney Harbour today to complete
its two-year circumnavigation of Australia. |
Aboriginal community doctors underpaid, NACHO says |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 June 2003 |
The National Aboriginal Controlled Health Organisation (NACHO) says doctors working in Aboriginal communities are being paid
up to $40,000 less than they should be. |
Customary law 'vital' to Indigenous people |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
6 June 2003 |
A speaker at the national native title conference in Alice Springs says customary law is critical to the existence of all
Indigenous people. |
Clark calls for united fight for native title rights |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
4 June 2003 |
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) chairman Geoff Clark has urged Indigenous people to unite in
the fight for native title rights. |
Australians urged to acknowledge Indigenous discrimination |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 May 2003 |
Australian of the Year, Fiona Stanley, says it is time for the nation to acknowledge and apologise for the impact on today's
Indigenous Australians for decades of discrimination and neglect. |
ATSIC calls for hold on mining in Australia |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 May 2003 |
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission chairman, Geoff Clark, has called for a moratorium on all mining activity
in Australia. |
Fight continues to stop gold mine |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 May 2003 |
Aboriginal elder Neville Williams has lodged an application for a fresh injunction in the Federal Court to stop the development
of an open cut mine at Lake Cowal, near West Wyalong in central NSW. |
Food forum to wrap up today |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
22 May 2003 |
A forum to discuss the supply of food to Cape York communities in far north Queensland is scheduled to end this afternoon. |
Labor to recruit Indigenous coast guards |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 May 2003 |
The Federal shadow community spokesman, Mark Latham, says Indigenous people in the Northern Territory's coastal communities
will be encouraged to join a volunteer coast guard program. |
Indigenous artists take back the reins |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 May 2003 |
Planned Commonwealth legislation is likely to help regulate the way Indigenous art is used in the mainstream community, according
to an Arnhem Land cultural centre. |
New books to improve Indigenous literacy rates |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 May 2003 |
A program aimed at improving the literacy standards of young Aboriginal people has been launched in Sydney |
Aboriginal children susceptible to lung disease |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 May 2003 |
Research published in the Medical Journal of Australia shows that Aboriginal children are particularly susceptible to lung
disease. |
Council to vote on land custodian statement |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 May 2003 |
Warrnambool City Council will tonight vote on whether to adopt an official statement to recognise traditional Aboriginal
land custodians. |
New copyright laws to protect Aboriginal art |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 May 2003 |
The Federal Government will introduce new copyright laws to protect the creative works of Aboriginal communities. |
Indigenous crisis not addressed, health group says |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 May 2003 |
A prominent Aboriginal health organisation says this week's Federal Budget does almost nothing to address the crisis in Indigenous
health. |
WA closes Indigenous camp |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 May 2003 |
The Western Australian Government says five suspicious deaths in recent years and a catalogue of abuse allegations have prompted
its decision to close the Swan Valley Nyoongah camp. |
ATSIC commissioner says petrol ban 'a cry for help' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 May 2003 |
The central zone ATSIC commissioner, Alison Anderson, says the ban of petrol sales at the Papunya community, west of Alice
Springs, is a cry for help. |
Petrol sniffing a health care time bomb: nurse |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
12 May 2003 |
A remote area nurse working in the Northern Territory says if more is not done to reduce petrol sniffing in Aboriginal communities
the future cost to the public health system will be enormous. |
Coober Pedy elders criticise waste dump decision |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
10 May 2003 |
The senior Aboriginal women of Coober Pedy, in outback South Australia, have condemned the Federal Government for choosing
to set up a low-level nuclear waste dump in the state. |
Coat of arms theft charges stand |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
9 May 2003 |
A member of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy has lost his bid to have charges over the theft of the coat of arms from Old Parliament
House dismissed. |
Aboriginal leaders urged to consider positions |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 May 2003 |
The Indigenous Affairs Minister says he will not move to stand aside the ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark, even though he is urging
Mr Clark and his deputy Ray Robinson to consider their positions. |
Aboriginal remains returned to Coorong tribe |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 May 2003 |
The National Museum of Australia will hand back the remains of hundreds of South Australian Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal people
today. |
Govt stays out of 'Nigger' Brown controversy |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
5 May 2003 |
The Federal Government has washed its hands of the controversy surrounding the ES "Nigger" Brown stand at a Toowoomba
sportsground on Queensland's Darling Downs. |
Didgeridoo left on space station |
BBC News |
4 May 2003 |
The capsule carrying three astronauts stranded on the International Space Station by the shuttle disaster, has been found
safe after a nerve-wracking desert search. |
Magistrate's anti Aboriginal outburst |
The Age |
2 May 2003 |
Anne-Marie Were, mother of Tashara Lee-Anne Were, was angered at magistrate Michael Frederick's comments about her daughter. |
Noongar people trace their roots |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
1 May 2003 |
Western Australia's entire Noongar population is to be traced back to the original 200 families that populated the south-west. |
Indigenous dance to feature at Gulf Anzac ceremony |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
25 Apr 2003 |
A dance created more than 60 years ago will be a feature of an Anzac Day service and memorial dedication in a remote Gulf
of Carpentaria community. |
Govt considers renaming 'Nigger' stand |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
24 Apr 2003 |
The Federal Government says it will consider a United Nations recommendation calling for the word 'nigger' to be removed
from signage at a southern Queensland sports ground. |
WA Govt to grant freehold title outside native title definition |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 Apr 2003 |
The Western Australian Government will grant freehold title over 50,000 hectares of Crown land in the East Kimberley if the
traditional Aboriginal owners agree to settle their native title claim. |
More need to be done to protect Indigenous children |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
2 Apr 2003 |
Federal Youth Affairs Minister Larry Anthony has conceded more needs to done to protect Indigenous children. |
Traditional owners not sure they want back Maralinga |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27 Mar 2003 |
Traditional owners of the Maralinga lands, in South Australia's far west, say it is still not definite that they will accept
the handover of the land from the Federal Government. |
Maralinga $108m nuclear clean-up 'an abject failure' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
26 Mar 2003 |
Doubts linger over the effectiveness of the $108 million clean-up of the Maralinga nuclear test site, despite Federal Government
claims that it was a success. |
Couple charged with selling home-made ginger wine to Aborigines |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
21 Mar 2003 |
Police in the Kimberley region of north-western WA have charged a Kununurra couple after they were allegedly caught selling
home-made ginger wine to Aborigines for more than $10 a litre. |
Increase in Indigenous women prisoners |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
20 Mar 2003 |
A new report has revealed a significant increase in the number of Indigenous women being imprisoned across Australia. |
Tent Embassy will be removed |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 Mar 2003 |
The Territories Minister, Wilson Tuckey, says time is running out for residents living at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in
Canberra. |
Land owners critical of C'wealth consultation |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
8 Mar 2003 |
The traditional owners of South Australia's Maralinga lands have criticised the Federal Government's handling of the $100
million clean-up at the former British nuclear test site. |
Aboriginal leadership to be honoured |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
7 Mar 2003 |
A new addition is to be made to Reconciliation Place in Canberra. |
Gulpilil honoured for film career |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 Mar 2003 |
The inaugural Adelaide International Film Festival saw the presentation of the first Don Dunstan Award for contribution to
Australian film, presented to Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil. |
Qld begins move to community alcohol restrictions |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
3 Mar 2003 |
The Queensland Liquor Licensing Division says community justice groups are currently being set up in all the state's deeds
of grant In trust Aboriginal communities as a prelude to the introduction of alcohol restrictions. |
Ruddock denies withholding NT land council funds |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
28 Feb 2003 |
Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs Philip Ruddock has denied he is withholding almost $70 million in royalties from
Northern Territory land councils. |
Aboriginal advocate pressures police over inquest |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
27Feb 2003 |
The Aboriginal Justice Advocacy Committee says it will take the Northern Territory police commissioner to court if he does
not respond appropriately to the findings of an inquest into the death of a woman last year. |
Police storm Aboriginal tent embassy |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
19 Feb 2003 |
More than 50 police have stormed the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra to dismantle what was alleged to be an illegal structure. |
Couple to be compensated for property loss |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
18 Feb 2003 |
The Northern Territory Government says property owners in Alice Springs affected by a bungled sacred site search may be
compensated for the cost of their properties. |
MP proposes to scrap Aboriginal traditional law |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 Feb 2003 |
A Northern Territory MP has proposed legislation that would prevent the use of traditional law as a factor in sentences involving
sexual offences against minors. |
Namatjira copyright campaign gets Democrat support
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 Feb 2003 |
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Successful start to Arukun community's alcohol plan |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
17 Feb 2003 |
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Govt consults public for petrol sniffing prevention |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
15 Feb 2003 |
Federal Education Minister Brendan Nelson says his staff have consulted extensively with Indigenous groups across Australia
to form a new strategy to prevent petrol sniffing. |
WA Govt keeps quiet over Burrup approval conditions |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
14 Feb 2003 |
The Western Australian Government says it will not release the conditions behind approvals given to major resources companies
to build on significant Aboriginal sites in the north-west unless the companies agree. |
Govt to remove funding from Indigenous education programs |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 Feb 2003 |
The Labor member for Lingiari Warren Snowdon says the Federal Government's move to withdraw funding from several Indigenous
education programs could result in job losses across most schools in Northern Territory communities. |
Govt urged to read new book: 'Black Lives, Government Lies' |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 Feb 2003 |
The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission says governments should read a new book about how Aborigines have been
disenfranchised. |
Yorta Yorta people planning to take native title claim to UN |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
13 Feb 2003 |
The Yorta Yorta people of north-east Victoria are continuing their fight for land justice despite their native title claim
being dismissed. |
It's a Didgeridoo Christmas day for space station crew |
SilvertonAppeal.com |
1 Jan 2003 |
Christmas away from family is often hard. But Silverton native Don Pettit and his crewmates had fun aboard the International
Space Station. |
Homelands sweet home |
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC Online |
30 Oct 2002 |
There is a renewed push for Aboriginal people to move from established communities to traditional homelands or outstations. |
The Pulse of Life: Music of Our World and Beyond |
SPACE.com |
12 Sep 2002 |
As the deep, rich drone of a didgeridoo continued to emanate from a portable CD player, American composer Andrew Kaiser wrapped
up his argument for the role of music in interstellar communication. |
